Its been a while

Holy crap, I havent updated in over a year. Oops. I guess thats what happens when life gets crazy, and over the past year, it got crazy. Since my post October 2012 we had our (very sick) holidays, found out we were pregnant, spent two weeks in Florida ( well Mia and I did), went through some scary testing for our baby (all ended up just fine), got ready for a family trip to Maine, went into preterm labor (four times), canceled our trip to Maine, endured an extremely hot summer being 8 months pregnant and on bed rest, had our Georgia, had my family come visit, Doug's family come visit, and then some wonderful holidays as a family of four! Phew! It has been quite a year. And I suck at updating. I blame my kids. And my school work. But mostly my kids. 2014 is going to be a good year, I hope! We are at a place where we need to slow down and just enjoy our time together. I am learning that the only things that really matter reside within the four walls of my home, so I am trying to focus on that. We are planning a trip to Florida, trying to redo our trip to Maine ( BIG shoutout to JetBlue for not charging us to change our tickets, I got really lucky and got a person on the phone who had dealt with preterm labor herself!). Other than that I want to enjoy ourselves! I want to bring some peace into our home and into our lives and just enjoy! We will take trips around our beautiful state of Washington, to Seattle, or the Ocean. I really want to check out Mount St Helens. We will garden and play outside, we will BBQ and go for walks. I will continue to get back into running (mostly for my sanity). Heres a quick update on all of us: Doug is working A LOT. He takes overtime shifts when he can. He works 12 hour nights so when he takes an extra shift its more like being gone for two days. He likes roasting coffee though and I think finds a little bit of "relaxation" ( I use that term lightly) in getting out of the house for the night and not constantly making deals with our two year old. When he is home he is with the girls. Mia enjoys dragging him around, jumping on him, and licking him. She is weird. I am trying to find balance in our life. I am home with our girls and work a few hours a week outside the home. I am also in school full time (online) and try to find time throughout the week to work on that. I am VERY ready to be done. I have a few more classes and then student teaching and I will have my Bachelors and Teacher's License. I recently started running again and am enjoying that very much. It clears my head and makes me feel good. I hate the actual act of running though. Oh well. I love being able to be home with my girls. Mia will be 3 this June! I can't believe it. I am so blessed to have her. She knows her colors, shapes, signs her ABCs and loves every single animal on the planet. She is still doing sign language and I truly feel it helped her grasp her vocabulary much quicker than she would have without it. Sometimes she signs things and I don't even know what it means and have to go look it up. Right now she is having fun watching daddy ball (football) with Doug on the weekends, and stealing my diet coke every chance she gets. Georgia is perfect. She was be 6 months old February 1st. Aside from not liking to sleep for long periods of time at night, she is doing great. She is super long and skinny. At her 4 month check up she was in the 97th percentile for height and the 6th for weight! Since then though she has really started to chunk up. She is still in 3 month clothing though. She loves to roll over and is absolutely amazed by her hands. She also loves to grab anything she can to inspect it. She is very happy baby for the most part. Oh, and she has recently found her thumb:) Theres a very jumbled catch up update about our family. I should just do a post of pictures, probably more fun to go through. But seeing as though this little blog is to keep some sort of record for our family, I should really write more. Isn't there a way to print out blog posts at the end of the year and put into books? I should look into that. hmmm....